Chandler Cruise

Central Oregon, OR - United States

Born in the month of June- Wipāzutkān Waste’ Win’ (Moon when June Berries are good), Chandler S. Cruise; Lakota name “Wāpā-Hā-Luṫā” (Sacred Red Flag). Enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, raised on the land of Chief American Horse in American Horse Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. A great-great grandson of the powerful medicine man (wi’cāsā wākān) Little Warrior, a survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn (Custer’s Last Stand). My art expresses who I am, a modern...more